The Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund (OMPF) will be sending $ 1,482,200 to Perth Ontario’s way for 2010 according to Ontario’s Ministry of Finance. This amount is said to be $ 185,100 more from this year’s allocation from the OMPF which should be more than enough to bring a smile to even more people in the county.
The increase in funding can safely be assumed as a result of the concensus Report of the Provincial-Municipal Fiscal and Service Delivery Review (PMFSDR) back in October of 2008. The report dubbed, “Facing the Future Together” was co-created by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) and the City of Toronto.
As a background, the OMPF has been set to aid counties with their social project costs which includes property assessments, the cost of policing, and other challenges associated with the municipalities in Northern Canada.
Some of the programs in Perth County that are directly affected by this allocation from the OMPF include the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB).
By the looks of this, it seems that 2010 is looking better than this challenging year already.
